Bruce Philip Dohrenwend (born July 26, 1927; died February 4, 2025) was an American psychiatric epidemiologist who studies the effects of social adversity on mental health.
In 1958 he joined the Columbia University faculty and began his research on the Washington Heights Community Health Project.
Dohrenwend also had an appointment as Research Scientist, and later Chief of the Division of Social Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, which is located at the Columbia Medical School campus.
The group documented that mental stress caused by miscommunication of government and regulatory agencies was a serious consequence of the accident, despite the actual containment of radiation[3] Dohrenwend continued in the 1980s to advance his program of research that focused on causal mechanisms that explained the onset of psychopathology.
Dohrenwend was specifically concerned with persons who had no predisposition for psychopathology but who were exposed to combat-related events that were markedly different from usual human experience.